Happy Children's Garden (Cambodia)

In the 1970s, the brutal Pol Pot regime nearly destroyed Cambodia, killing around 2 million people through execution, forced labor or starvation. Thirty years later, the country still struggles to meet the basic needs of its people. Deep psychological scars remain, and many suffer from stress related disorders. Through this broken world walks Cambodia's next generation, growing up largely ignored and unwanted by adults who do not listen to them and cannot afford to send them to school. Instead, these children must stay at home, tending to younger siblings and doing housework. Lack of education even extends to hygiene and disease, which children can fall victim to so easily. Even those who are allowed to attend Sunday school may not get the guidance and love they need, as teachers lack the education and materials to adequately help them.

Seeing the desperate need of its nation's children, TWR-Cambodia's team produces the Happy Children's Garden program, a weekly 15-minute Bible story series geared to reach children of all ages. Beginning with creation and ending with Christ's return, each program not only teaches life applications, but also biblical traditions, customs, culture and the geography of the Holy Land, so that children will have a more complete knowledge of Scripture. Listeners learn songs performed by children in churches TWR's team visits, and they can win prizes by sending in correct answers to questions about the day's story.

Happy Children's Garden is currently aired on local FM stations throughout Cambodia. The TWR-Cambodia team also touches listeners' lives on a personal level through correspondence and rallies held in different villages, where they learn more biblical lessons, receive gifts of basic hygiene items and eat food specially prepared by volunteers.

Your gift of $100 will help direct Cambodian children toward a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

A Season of Hope in Japan

An elderly woman showed up at a Japanese church and told the pastor, “I am not a Christian yet, but I believe God has sent me here.” She had received a tract from a TWR ministry team going door to door to share the gospel and hand out broadcast schedules of TWR’s Japanese radio programs.

She and others like her are an answer to our prayers that God would send a revival among the Japanese, who have been called the second largest unreached people group in the world. TWR is airing six programs on 16 FM stations in Japan and on shortwave from Guam for a total of more than 200 hours of programming each month in an area of almost 8 million people.

But the exciting part is to see a new openness to the gospel among the Japanese people in recent years, partly due to the natural disasters that have caused the Japanese to search for the truth and consider their eternity. Your gift toward our goal of $90,000 will help us to continue sharing the hope of Christ in Japan.

Africa Orality Projects-Unreached Peoples

Visit a rural Hausa village in West Africa, and sooner or later you’ll come across a group of children and adults gathered around an elder telling a story. They're doing more than listening to a story, though—they’re taking part in the rich cultural heritage that defines the Hausa and gives a strong sense of their place in their community and world.

The Hausa are considered “oral learners”—that is, storytelling, drama, and other oral-teaching forms are some of the best ways to reach their hearts, even among those who are literate. They are also one of Africa’s largest “unreached people groups,” with only .04 percent being evangelical Christians, and more than 30 million of them live within range of TWR’s West Africa Transmitting Station.

That’s why, with the help of people like you, TWR has developed innovative programs that use traditional teaching forms to share the gospel story, like the Hausa-language program Hasken Rai (Light of Life), in which a younger person asks an elder questions about a Scripture passage.

And the Hausa people are being changed by the Word! Just last year, thanks to many who support Hasken Rai, almost 2,500 Hausa listeners responded with testimonies like this one:

“Thank you. I got converted to Christianity through your programs. I was about to perish, but your program set me free. Please pray for me, because I want to understand what God requires from me since I received Him as my Lord and personal Savior.”

The gospel is the greatest true story ever told, and with your gift right now, you can help tell it to the Hausa and four other unreached “oral-learning” people groups in Africa who may never hear it any other way. At only $20 a minute to reach an average of 1.2 million people, how many minutes of God’s truth can you provide?

Biblical Programs for Silk Road

In the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, expressing interest in Christianity can mean persecution in the form of tapped phone conversations, violent church raids, and exorbitant fines. The hostility can be felt from dictatorial authorities as well as intimate family and friends.

Three of TWR's programs for Central Asia are designed to disciple first-generation Christians in God’s Word: The Way of Righteousness is a series of 100 radio programs that chronologically presents the stories of the biblical prophets and their clear messages from God.

The Christian Home presents a model for biblical and healthy family relationships. And the Christian Youth program encourages young Christians to grow in faith and make wise decisions for the future.

Each of these programs is offered in four or five languages spoken in Central Asia and will be aired from the new Silk Road Transmitter. TWR would like to raise $50,000 in the U.S. to support Central Asian programs over the next year.

Champions Arise

One of TWR’s newest ministries, Champions Arise, was launched in response to the call of our listeners for a program specifically for men.

Champions Arise uses prayer, small groups, and mass media to challenge, encourage and coach men worldwide to become champions of Christ, enabled by God’s Spirit to live out their true identity in him and to run the race of faith through his power.

The Champions Arise radio program has been translated into more than a dozen languages using content from three partner ministries: The Four Priorities, Every Man a Warrior, and Adult Children of Divorce.

Champions Arise encourages men to embody Christ’s example of humility and integrity, to build Christ-honoring relationships, and to be committed to prayer and the study of God’s Word, living it out in every aspect of their lives.

Specific needs include airtime for Russian broadcasts, airtime for Indonesian broadcasts, and translation of the programs into Albanian. Champions Arise would like to raise $20,000 in the next year to continue ministry expansion.

Crosswave India Youth Outreach

Like young people everywhere, the post-modern youth of India are glued to their smartphones using the internet and social media to explore answers to their questions about relationships, addictions, suicidal thoughts, and many other issues of growing up. It is not an audience that typically listens to AM or FM radio, and TWR's staff in South Asia wants to meet them right where they are and introduce them to Jesus Christ.

The Crosswave youth outreach is a series of online videos designed to reach a generation with many media content choices. A second and important component to the project is to have a team of counselors in place to personally guide searching young people in biblical choices and worldview.

TWR's director for South Asia puts it this way: "My passion is that the name of Christ should be heard on this platform and that the spirit of God will use it to influence the lost toward his kingdom." Our goal is to raise $15,000 to put these videos and a follow-up team in place to serve the youth of India.

Czech Children's Programming

The Czech Republic has the highest percentage of atheists in the world. In most cities and towns, there is no local evangelical church or Sunday school available to help them find God or even find out that He exists. Children born into this culture may never get the opportunity to hear about Jesus and come to an early belief in Him. These children are not only the future of their nation, but a very real hope for the present as well, as their faith can lead families, neighbors, and communities to the Lord.

To respond to this need, TWR is developing an exciting range of new children's programs that bring the good news of God's love to many young lives for the very first time. Designed for all ages, the aim of the programs is to change young lives for Christ. This is a great opportunity to be involved in a new era of children's ministry in the Czech Republic from the beginning, but the work can only grow as the Lord leads supporters to come alongside workers in the field.

A gift of $50 will cover the costs of preparing, producing and broadcasting one full 15-minute Konafasek program on radio and other media devices. Konafasek, which focuses on sharing biblical principles on life in a story-telling format that children can easily understand, is a term used at the end of the day when kids would crawl under the blanket.

Alternatively, a gift of $300 will make 90 minutes of the Kormidlo program via radio and other media devices possible. Kormidlo means ‘rudder’ and seeks to explain in a dynamic, interactive way how God needs to be the rudder of our lives.

There are approximately two million listeners waiting to hear that God loves them. Please consider supporting children's programs in the Czech Republic today!

Discipleship on the Air Farsi Program

The Persian-speaking world is made up of countries whose religious and traditional beliefs make it extremely difficult to penetrate with the gospel. Churches grow slowly, if at all, as they are beaten down by governments, communities and families antagonistic to Christianity. With so few resources to bring up new believers, pastors and lay leaders lack the deep knowledge and understanding of the Bible they need to nurture their small flocks.

Where missionaries are locked out and local Christians face persecution, radio can reach quietly into the homes and hearts of Persian-speaking believers. In cooperation with others, TWR has developed Discipleship On The Air (DOTA), a discipleship and mentoring program for emerging house church leaders in the Middle East. This project combines seminars, radio broadcasts, on-the-ground ministry with and appropriate study materials to meet the needs of leaders. A carefully developed curriculum is being aired via radio with complementary written material distributed to a select group of people ahead of time. The written material is also available on the Internet.

Please consider partnering with us in this important ministry to Persian-speaking church leaders. Your gift today will make a significant difference to airing this desperately needed program to the Persian Speaking World.

Financially Sustainable Ministry

It has been our privilege throughout the history of TWR to come alongside our partners in other countries to support them with funding, missionary personnel, and training in radio broadcasting.

The goal, however, is that sustainable ministries are developed so that our national partners become local ministries with local audiences and support. In this way, prayer warriors and supporters are raised up and encouraged to take part in reaching their own countries for Christ, without depending on the West for long-term funding. Another result is that gifts from foreign sources are not as likely to undermine local businesses or replace local ingenuity.

TWR has become a prominent champion among global missions to encourage local communities in the developing world to see themselves as blessed by God and gifted with the creative use of local resources, however scarce they might be.

TWR is encouraging an attitude of resourcefulness among our regional offices and national partners around the world with specific training and coaching. In this way, we all rejoice in the biblical model of joyful giving.

Your support of Financially Sustainable Ministry will provide scholarships for TWR partners who desire to attend the training sessions in their own regions.

Global Media Outreach Fund

Does sharing the gospel by mass media really work? A man paralyzed for 30 years lay on his bed, unable to move. That was his life, and he thought, “Why live?”

But then with a radio by his ear, he heard about God’s love from TWR and began to ponder, “Does God have a purpose for my life?” Through social media, he encouraged others trapped by disabilities to listen to TWR, and a listening club of over 200 people was formed.

Today, he uses his voice to teach the Bible to his social network and has completed TWR’s online seminary in the Mandarin language.

For over 60 years, we have been hearing from listeners like this. A man in Africa said, “I was about to commit murder, but your program stopped me.” Others have been pulled back from committing suicide, getting abortions, and many other situations because God intervened with just the right message.

Your support of TWR’s Global Media Outreach, our general fund, helps us to keep our global operations going year after year. Our goal for this next fiscal year is $2,200,000.

Global Personnel Fund

With a worldwide missionary staff, powerful radio stations to maintain and offices in many countries, personnel needs exist on an ongoing basis with very limited funds, or none at all, available to fill them.

TWR?s Global Personnel Fund allows us to fill critical needs for personnel when missionaries return to the U.S. for furlough, when health problems or other emergencies arise, and when our work exceeds our human capacity. At times this fund has helped to get new missionaries to the field when they were badly needed there but were not fully funded yet by churches and supporters. Each time these funds are used to support an individual or family, it is a great blessing to them and to TWR.

Your gift to this fund allows our staff to see God?s hand providing for their God-given calling. And having their help allows us to keep our programs on the air. We hear from our listeners daily as they plead with us to keep broadcasting and feeding them with spiritual nourishment, so this fund is also a blessing to our listening audiences around the world.

God’s Unique Book for Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is an island nation off the southern coast of India. While there are some Christians, the majority adheres to another world religion, and the environment for Christians can be difficult.

TWR’s program called God’s Unique Book in the Sinhala and Tamil languages explains the messages of the Bible. Beginning with who God is and what makes him unique, the orality programs move through Scripture from creation to the cross.

TWR’s follow-up staff personally encourage listeners to form discussion groups in their homes to listen to the programs together. About 425 listeners get in touch with TWR each month.

One listener wrote, “After hearing your message today, it increased my faith in Jesus. I have been paralyzed for 20 years. After listening to your program, I madly trust in this Jesus.”